Is there an OVB expert in the house? I know Dibl is, because he helped me more than a decade ago, but I don't know how to get in touch with him. I'm going to switch from VMware (because Broadcom's support is so poor) to OVB, and it would be good to have someone warn me about the pitfalls. Thanks.
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No expert, but I had been using it for work on several user's systems (Windows 7 in VirtualBox on Kubuntu
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The documentation is quite good - all I can say so far is that EFI does not always work for every guest system and it crashes my Latte Dock on the Kubuntu 24.04 hosts from time to time…
I would advise you to at least additionally install the matching Extension Pack for the version you use - the one from the *Ubuntu repos is currently 7.0.16.
Depending what you want to do it could be necessary to install the matching Guest Additions within the VMs.
You can find both here: https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.16Debian KDE & LXQt • Kubuntu & Lubuntu • openSUSE KDE • Windows • macOS X
Desktop: Lenovo ThinkCentre M75s • Laptop: Apple MacBook Pro 13" • and others
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I’d avoid the 7 series, as from my reads, that version is primarily for Windows users. I’m using/sticking with the 6.1 versions.Originally posted by Schwarzer Kater View PostWindows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
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The support for VirtualBox 6.1.x ended in January '24… Sooner or later the current Linux kernels will not work anymore with the 6.1.x versions (AFAIK the last officially supported Linux kernel is 6.6.x - 6.8.x does work at the moment, though).
No problems at all here with VirtualBox 7.x (Kubuntu, Debian, TUXEDO OS, openSUSE, macOS and Windows hosts) - what exactly did you read?Debian KDE & LXQt • Kubuntu & Lubuntu • openSUSE KDE • Windows • macOS X
Desktop: Lenovo ThinkCentre M75s • Laptop: Apple MacBook Pro 13" • and others
get rid of Snap script (20.04 +) • reinstall Snap for release-upgrade script (20.04 +)
install traditional Firefox script (22.04 +) • install traditional Thunderbird script (24.04)Comment
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